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3 Ensuring Sustainability and Appropriate Management

Expanding the impact of facilities requires support for infrastructure, including maintenance
practices, the recovery of investment expenses, and local transit and rural electrification.
Recurrent cost budgets are frequently broken in underdeveloped nations due to money issues.
Therefore, a lot of initiatives are currently being developed so that local organizations can
manage and maintain the infrastructure on their own and independently of the government.
Therefore, facilities must be built in a way that makes them technically and financially
manageable for the local populace. Community organization is additionally aided by
collaboration with neighborhood NGOs who have a thorough awareness of the conditions
there. Therefore, the promotion of rural development necessitates the improvement of health
conditions for local people. An expansion of public medical services and improvement of
sanitary conditions are essential.
7.4 Improvement of Protective Capabilities
Disasters are started because they are crucial to rural development. Roads, irrigation systems,
agricultural lands, forests, and other economic and social infrastructure are severely harmed
by natural disasters like floods and desertification. As a result, these concerns are crucial to
rural development efforts. Furthermore, erosion and sediment control as well as the
preservation of the natural environment are crucial steps in reducing poverty since poor
people in rural regions are more susceptible to natural disasters and because farmed land can
be easily devastated by floods. As a result of the food shortages brought on by their
environmental deterioration, poor conditions get worse. It's imperative to break the cycle of
poverty and environmental deterioration. Activities that positively impact the environment
should be highlighted in order for project effects to become sustainable. These are a few
justifications for environmental preservation in rural development projects. In addition to
reducing the effects of natural disasters like floods, conserving forests also helps to preserve
or increase output by preventing soil erosion.
7.5 Improvement of Political Capabilities
Enhancement of decentralization and strengthening of local government are important to
conduct rural development suited to the area. Rural development strategies include creating
development plans that take into account the numerous unique characteristics of rural areas
and implementing the projects with community involvement. Local governments must work
together for development support to promptly address local issues. Decentralisation is crucial
for the growth of rural communities because of this. Decentralisation has advanced slowly,
despite being a widely endorsed policy in many nations. Due to the fact that central
governments still have the power to make decisions, there are situations when local
governments are lacking in either policymaking capacity or personnel resources.
Decentralisation, on the other hand, can exacerbate existing regional disparities and
inequities. This leads to the conclusion that proper decentralisation measures are necessary
for rural development activities, including the reform of laws and financial management for
decentralisation as well as the capacity building of the central governments.